Starving Artistry

Back from Hiatus

// January 11th, 2010 // No Comments » // Photo

Well, I finished that game, so it’s back to business!

First of all, big news is that I think I’ll be closing on my house this coming Friday! It’s been a loooong time coming (I first put down my offer way back in August of ‘09) but it looks like the end is finally here! The end of living and eating free I mean… I’m gonna go do my walkthrough on Wednesday hopefully, so I’ll post a few pics then. In the meantime…

This week’s photo theme was “Blue.” I took like a hundred pictures of Harry ’cause I was deadset on capturing his blue collar. I wanted to have the contrast of his blue collar against my black bedspread. Here’s the picture I ended up choosing:

I like the way his eye caught the flash, and you can see a bit of the wetness. Almost like he’d been crying sad doggie tears. Haha, but not really. He was just tired, and probably just annoyed that my flash had been going off in his face a million times.

I almost went with this one. I just like how old and wise he looks.

And some leftovers from NYE…

And I’m still planning on editing that footage from Evan and JP’s party… hopefully will get that up at somepoint…!

Happy New Year!

// January 1st, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Photo

So I bought myself the Speedlite 580EXII flash for my camera and I love being able to take pictures in dark places i hadn’t been able to before. I’d say my favorite thing about the flash is being able to pump up the shutter speed so high that there’s no chance of any motion blur. The pictures just seem sharper! Also, the fact I can angle the flash up so that it bounces off the ceiling for a more natural lighting look. Not so washed out, like with most consumer cameras.

So here are a few pics I took.

Here’s my Maudio Sputnik. Good times.

Me showing off my flash to Gretchen which really means me surprising her with a pic. Again, look how natural the colors look and everything! I didn’t edit these photos at all (except to resize them)!

Here’s Sunny again. I really like this shot. So cute.

And mid-yawn. Not as cute. haha, why do dogs always look like crazy killer animals when they get caught on camera mid-yawn?

Sunny wearing Taylor’s glasses. I don’t think he liked it.

Taylor before going out for New Years. AKA, big kid prom.

That’s all for now, still working on that video from Evan’s b-day, but DragonAge has been distracting me!

Photo a Week #4

// December 28th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Photo

This week’s theme “Alone.”

Took this at Taylor’s house. All the bulbs were burned out except for two so I unscrewed the last one and took the shot. Actually, I took many, many shots.

This was after spending 15 minutes outside taking a picture of a chair on a mound of snow. But none of them turned out THAT great (by that, I mean Taylor and her roommate both poo-pooed the shots I took). It was hard coming up with a picture to match the theme though.

This week’s theme: “Abandoned Places.” Where in NoVA is abandoned anyway?? Oh yeah, that Chicken Out place in the Giant shopping center. I just have to sneak inside…

So Close…

// December 23rd, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Photo

… to Christmas! Despite the snow on the ground, it doesn’t really feel like it! I guess that’s because for the last, oh… 8 years or so I’ve always had to travel somewhere to go visit my family. Since we’re doing it at home this year, it kinda feels like your typical day and whatnot.

Anyway, this afternoon I helped my mom make some Christmas sugar cookies. It comes from a family recipie, and I have to be honest, I’ve never actually had Christmas cookies that were quite this good. We rolled the dough today in preparation of making the cookies tomorrow.

This is a shot of the recipie as my mom had it on the counter. Then my fingers got all dirty and I had to stop taking pictures.

Harry was watching attentively as we worked, hoping to eat some buttery cookie dough I’m sure (4 sticks of butter! Ugh!)

Anyway, after that was all done, we hit the grocery store, but not before I did some quick research on HDR photography. So as soon as I got home, I wanted to try it out. Here are a couple of shots… I think it’d work better outside with better light and stuff, but you can kind of see that hyper-realistic look.

Shot of my living room from where I was sitting and conducting my research.

My mom workin.

Anyway, the whole family’s here now, so I suppose I should go spend QT with them. Merry Christmas…!

Photo A Week

// December 22nd, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Photo

Just a quick little update. Here was my submission for the week’s theme of “lights.”